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To ask what you would pay for this?

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SequinsAndGlitter · 06/02/2021 17:53

Needing someone to come to the house at 7.30AM, look after a 7 year old and walk 7 year old to school for 8.45AM.
£5 too low, £10 too high?

OP posts:
Criagert · 07/02/2021 07:46

@SequinsAndGlitter

Person doing it is an adult, qualified ,with full dbs. Would not need to return to the house as child is at school. School is 20 minutes walk away.
At least £10 per hour. And bear in mind that if yhey are offered more hours somewhere else they may not stick around.

I used to pay a local sixth-former £9 an hour for the exact same job (a few years ago and we're in London).

BorisandHarriet · 07/02/2021 08:08

Agree with others. Breakfast club and childminders cost less as they have multiple children. Also the parent brings the child to their house / school so it doesn’t involve going to the person's house. I was considering doing some childcare work for a friend but decided against it as, like you, I felt weird asking for the correct amount of money but it wouldn’t have been worth it for such a pittance!

HadEnoughOfGoingForWalks · 07/02/2021 08:25

£20 a day or 5 days a week for £90.

Apple40 · 07/02/2021 09:20

Childminders around my way charge £4.50 an hour for under 5s and children for before and after school are usually charged a set price of £20 for morning school runs and £20 for after school runs so they would not be charge £5 or do the school run for £5.

thriftyhen · 07/02/2021 09:27

£20.

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 07/02/2021 09:37

£20 minimum

Whammyyammy · 07/02/2021 09:40

£5!!! Jeez, you sound lovely and must think the world of your 7yr old....

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 07/02/2021 09:42

As a one off or every day termtime?

£60 per week.

If a one off, £15.

WinoLino · 07/02/2021 09:45

@Wammyyammy it's not for her child, she has been asked to do it.

Serin · 07/02/2021 10:04

OP, I would be very wary of anyone offering those rates. You sound lovely but I was a SAHM for a few years and the amount of women trying to get me to "help out" for little or no pay over the summer holidays was just ridiculous.
Even worse were the ones that I helped occasionally, as a favour and the expectation was then they then wanted a longer term arrangement.

Dixiechickonhols · 07/02/2021 10:24

It’s not comparable to breakfast club. Breakfast club parent has to get child out of door 7.10am to be at club for 7.30. Child is then watched with lots of other children no 1-1 attention. You are saving mum time plus child getting 1-1 attention. My instinct is between 10 and £15 a morning. How far to her house and school you live us a factor. I pay £12 an hour for my dog on a group walk! If she wants to pay £5 then use the school club and do ferrying around. If you want convenience you pay.

Dixiechickonhols · 07/02/2021 10:26

A child DD went to Primary school had a lady do this for her and I know Nanny got £10 an hour and that’s small northern town over 5 years ago.

TheyIsMyFamily · 07/02/2021 11:16

Breakfast club and childminders are cheaper because they have multiple children ... so multiple sources of income over the same time periods.

Kettledodger · 07/02/2021 13:13

OMG the average paid to dogwalkers in the UK is £21 for anything between 30-90mins walk. Why do people begrudge paying to have their child looked after properly!

Raindough · 07/02/2021 13:22

If it’s actually possible for her to get a childminder for £5, why is she bothering you? Surely she’d have booked said childminder by now!

Embroideredstars · 07/02/2021 13:31

People may say that after school clubs and childminders charge £5 but they have several children at a time in a place of their choosing. This set up is you going to someone else's home to solely care for their child for over an hour, you should also be including the walk back to your home in the fee as that is time taken out of your normal day. £15-20 sounds reasonable.

rawalpindithelabrador · 07/02/2021 13:40

@Serin

OP, I would be very wary of anyone offering those rates. You sound lovely but I was a SAHM for a few years and the amount of women trying to get me to "help out" for little or no pay over the summer holidays was just ridiculous. Even worse were the ones that I helped occasionally, as a favour and the expectation was then they then wanted a longer term arrangement.
This! She saw you coming, because listen to your remark, how you don't want to take advantage of her, when it appears she offered you a pittance. And the temporary thing. Yeah, right. She's a classic CFer.
LakieLady · 07/02/2021 13:53

£15-20.

It's 1.5 hours, and NMW is around £8.72 ph, so £15 is only just above NMW. Very inconvenient hours though, and I think £20 is reasonable to take that into account.

LakieLady · 07/02/2021 14:00

@NoKingDingaLingTitsInAbsentia

Can't stop laughing at the fact people pay more to have their dogs walked than you are prepared to pay to have your darling child looked after/walked to school Biscuit
The dog walker who lives round the corner from me charges £13 per dog, per half hour. Given that I often see her out with 6 or more dogs, that adds up to a very good hourly rate indeed.
LakieLady · 07/02/2021 14:11

@BungleandGeorge

I would have thought about £15. It’s not difficult work, £20 or £25 per hour seems like a huge amount, surely nannies aren’t paid that much?
My late partner used to work for a payroll company that specialised in running payroll for people who employ domestic staff, mainly nannies.

Some nannies were on over £40k a year, and the lowest paid was £23k.

Hankunamatata · 07/02/2021 14:32

I pay £5 for school breakfast club and I drop kids there. So too low. If offer £10, if you dont get uptake then increase

catgirl1976 · 07/02/2021 17:22

At least £15

OzzyGirl89 · 07/02/2021 17:29

Who on earth would get up that early to look after someone's child for over an hour... Walk 20 mins to drop them off... And twenty mins back?? For a fiver!!!

icedgem85 · 07/02/2021 17:31

£20 minimum! CF lol

Yogalola · 07/02/2021 17:32

If the going rate is £10 an hour, then work it out accordingly and round it up to say £15

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